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((If you are coming here from Bruce Sterling's Twitter link (hi!) can I take a moment to point you to Quiet Babylon which is where posts like this show up (I mirror them here for my friends) or perhaps mini.Quiet Babylon which is a Tumblog of related stuff? They've got RSS feeds and all that exciting stuff.))

((Pulled this article from the New ( Read more... )

Dan Barber’s story (embedded above) is one of my favourite kinds of stories. He begins with something that seems unethical, tells the story of an unlikely maverick who challenges the status quo and wins (a contest). All the while, it turns out that our maverick’s approach involves some down home ingenuity and hands on sustainability. In the end, ( Read more... )

I was reading this article on Slate.com about a number of subprime mortgage holders who are weathering the financial storm just fine. They have delinquency rates of around 3% in an area of finance where the national average is closer to 19%.

How is this possible?

The explanation that stuck with me came from Mark Pinsky, president and CEO of of the ( Read more... )

Oh man, this is pretty much everything that this blog is about in one place.

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This is a piece of brilliant design, for an excellent presentation about a critical problem, backed up by a raft of interesting statistics relating to the impact and efficacy of helping girls vs helping other groups.

(via Presentation Zen)

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If you go to a party with an open bar, would you rather have 3 free drinks and everyone else gets 4 or 2 free drinks and everyone else gets 1 ( Read more... )